Belarra ignores Sánchez's decree on the drought: "I wish it were a real climate shield"

Unidas Podemos did not know anything about the decree against the drought until the PSOE announced it by surprise on Wednesday morning. The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, did not receive the text that went to the Council of Ministers until that same night and amended it through the internal channels of the Executive; Now, with the document already approved, the purple part of the Government tries to distance itself in public from the proposal of its partners.

“We are satisfied with these measures of working conditions, but we would have liked this royal decree to be a true climate shield”, the minister has ugly in the corridor of the Congress of Deputies. Sources from the purple formation criticized yesterday in private the “lack of ambition” of the package of measures and attributed its failures to the haste of its partners, specifically, to “bring up another issue after having messed it up with the house.”

None of the contributions from the Ministry of Social Rights ended up in the final text of the decree. Late Wednesday night and throughout Thursday morning, the department led by Belarra proposed to urgently activate a network of “mandatory climate shelters” in all cities, keeping libraries and cultural centers open.

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In addition, it proposed “to guarantee that residences, nursery schools and care centers for vulnerable populations have sufficient means to maintain an adequate temperature”, sources from the purple address collect. This Friday, Belarra herself will take these recommendations to the Territorial Council.

Also, Belarra continued, he would have liked the PSOE to “finally” accept this “unblocking” of the fire law that has been “blocked for a long time” in Congress and include that the centers that serve the most vulnerable population have the ” obligation to have” air conditioners or fans.

The same sources lament the “lack of ambition” with which the socialist sector of the Government has designed the package of measures against the drought, which they consider “a hasty mistake”. “If he had such urgency for a new decree for the drought, he could have carried it in hand on Tuesday,” they clarified this Wednesday.

Reaction by the ICO

After Pedro Sánchez brought a surprise program of guarantees from the Official Credit Institute (ICO) to the last Council of Ministers, the President of the Government announced another meeting of the body this Thursday to approve a new extraordinary decree against drought. In the eyes of the purple formation, one urgency cannot be understood without the other.

The announcement of the ICO credits met with immediate opposition from the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, who accused Sánchez of “fomenting the mortgage spiral”, and from the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, who made ugly the “expired proposal […] unfair and ineffective” of its partners. The allies of the investiture were not left behind and the PSOE found itself, overnight, without allies to its left and with the only endorsement of PP and Vox.

“What he is doing is bringing up another issue after having messed it up with the house,” charged the purples after a week truffled with criticism for water management.

The reflection goes far beyond the credits of the ICO, which is still the tip of the iceberg of a communication policy that annoys partners and opposition alike. In recent weeks, the PSOE's modus operandi has been to announce —by surprise and at party rallies— new actions and decrees, the majority on housing, and inflate the pre-campaign two weeks before 28-M.